CYNAERA Advisory Board
Building the Future Through Research, Policy & Innovation
The CYNAERA Advisory Board brings together researchers, clinicians, policymakers, patient leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists, and community advocates who share a commitment to solving complex challenges through evidence, innovation, and collaboration.
Board members provide strategic guidance across research, artificial intelligence, public health, chronic illness, health equity, clinical innovation, policy development, and community engagement. Together, they help ensure that CYNAERA's work remains scientifically rigorous, community-informed, and focused on measurable impact.
Our Advisory Board Members
At CYNAERA , our board advisors contribute asynchronously to projects in progress. Our areas of focus include research and data, knowledge dissemination, policy and advocacy, people and leadership, and solutions implementation. Together, these pillars allow CYNAERA to generate evidence, translate findings into public and professional spaces, connect research to policy action, elevate emerging leaders, and turn ideas into practical tools, partnerships, and real world impact.
Jessica Gimeno
Jessica Gimeno is a Mental Health Policy Analyst at Access Living, member of the Illinois Mental Health Planning & Advisory Council (IMHPAC), and nationally recognized advocate for mental health and disability rights. Combining policy expertise, legislative experience, and award-winning public engagement, she brings CYNAERA deep insight into mental health systems, disability policy, healthcare access, and patient-centered reform.
Tracey Welson-Rossman
Tracey Welson-Rossman is a technology founder, advisor, and advocate for women in tech, with deep experience building platforms, companies, and communities that expand access to innovation. As founder and CEO of Journal My Health and founder of TechGirlz, she brings expertise in patient-centered digital health, startup strategy, technology innovation, and scalable community engagement.
Ingrid Wilson
Ingrid Wilson, CHRP, CHRL, CMS, is a Chief Human Resources Officer, board vice chair, and governance leader with more than three decades of executive experience spanning healthcare, technology, insurance, and nonprofit sectors. She brings CYNAERA expertise in organizational transformation, workforce strategy, board governance, executive leadership, and enterprise-scale change management.
Bemene Piaro
Bemene Piaro, MPH, ACC, CPC, is a former epidemiologist, public health strategist, and founder of The Wholeness Center. With expertise spanning population health, program evaluation, organizational learning, and wellness leadership, she brings CYNAERA a systems level lens on resilience, prevention, and community-centered health innovation.
Founder-Led Governance
CYNAERA is a founder-led research, policy, and innovation institute designed to transform emerging evidence into actionable solutions. While advisors, fellows, and council members provide expertise across science, healthcare, public policy, artificial intelligence, technology, and lived experience, final strategic integration and organizational decision-making remain centralized within CYNAERA leadership to ensure consistency, accountability, and alignment across research, publications, products, partnerships, and public initiatives.
Advisory participation is consultative rather than fiduciary or governing in nature. Contributions are shared through CYNAERA's Digital Dots™ collaboration framework, which enables distributed expertise from diverse disciplines to inform ongoing projects, publications, policy initiatives, and innovation efforts. Recommendations are reviewed, synthesized, and incorporated through a unified decision-making process that preserves organizational clarity while benefiting from broad expert input.
This structure allows CYNAERA to remain both collaborative and agile, leveraging multidisciplinary intelligence without diffusing responsibility or authority. Advisory members, fellows, and council participants do not exercise operational control, voting authority, or official representation of the organization unless expressly authorized in writing by CYNAERA leadership.